Minnesota Hospital Shuts Down ER and Urgent Care Amid Nurse Strike

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A hospital in Minnesota confirmed it temporarily shut down its emergency room and urgent care facility due to a nurse strike.

Allina Health, located in Plymouth, told The Epoch Times that due to the strike, emergency and urgent care services at its WestHealth location were suspended from Sunday morning until Wednesday.

โ€œNo other services on the WestHealth campus have been impacted,โ€ Allina Healthโ€™s statement said before it redirected people to seek urgent or emergency care at its Abbott Northwestern Hospital Emergency Department and other locations.

The City of Plymouth also confirmed that the hospitalโ€™s emergency room and urgent care facilities were shut down, releasing a list of nearby locations for emergency services on its website.

About 50 emergency room nurses organized by the Minnesota Nurses Association walked off the job, demanding more benefits and holiday pay, the organization told local media.

โ€œCompensating nurses fairly for holiday pay is especially critical because understaffing by Allina and other hospital systems has required nurses to work more days and longer hours, including overtime and holidays, as they continue on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic,โ€ the nurses association said.

But Allina Health and Abbott Northwestern WestHealth negotiated seven times with the statewide union, noting that a โ€œsettlement was previously reached and unanimously recommendedโ€ by the union, according to the companyโ€™s statement.  However, the Minnesota Nurses Association didnโ€™t finalize the deal and went ahead with the strike, it added.

โ€œThroughout negotiations, we have consistently offered proposals that demonstrate our commitment to our employees, including an immediate wage increase to align wages with other metro hospitals and agreeing to some of the unionโ€™s other priority issues,โ€ Allina told The Epoch Times.

But one striking nurse,ย union chairwoman Sonya Worner, toldย Fox9ย that Allina Health carried out โ€œa diabolical decision to shut down care to the residents, as well as their own revenue.โ€

โ€œThis could literally end tomorrow if we got a call saying, โ€˜Yes weโ€™ll offer you summer holiday pay as part of this package,โ€™โ€ Worner added.

Byย Jack Phillips

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